This presentation looks at the significance of Cuban-born, American artist Felix-González-Torres, an openly gay man whose work played a major influence in the politicization of art during the 1980s AIDS crisis. More broadly, this panel also aims to discuss questions of gender in Latinidad through a queer and Latinx lens.

This session will consider how Latinx artists navigate being caught between different colonial legacies. The result of these legacies often produce narrow readings of artistic practices which silence experiences in order to make people more digestible. This conversation will center around Black/Indigenous/Queer/Non-binary Latinx creatives and what it means to disrupt the racial and gender binaries that are dominant in U.S.